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\nWith new grant program, OpenAI aims to crowdsource AI regulation<\/br>
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OpenAI says it\u2019s launching a program<\/a> to award ten $100,000 grants to fund experiments in setting up a democratic process for deciding what rules AI systems should follow \u2014 \u201cwithin the bounds defined by the law.\u201d<\/p>\n

The launch of the grant program comes after OpenAI\u2019s calls<\/a> for an international regulatory body for AI akin to that governing nuclear power. In its proposal for such a body, OpenAI co-founders Sam Altman, Greg Brockman and Ilya Sutskever argued that the pace of innovation in AI is so fast that we can\u2019t expect existing authorities to adequately rein in the tech \u2014 a sentiment today\u2019s announcement captures as well.<\/p>\n

Concretely, OpenAI says it\u2019s seeking to fund individuals, teams and organizations to develop proof-of-concepts for a \u201cdemocratic process\u201d that could answer questions about guardrails for AI. The company wants to learn from these experiments, it says, and use them as the basis for a more global \u2014 and more ambitious \u2014 process going forward.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhile these initial experiments are not (at least for now) intended to be binding for decisions, we hope that they explore decision relevant questions and build novel democratic tools that can more directly inform decisions in the future,\u201d the company wrote in a blog post published today. \u201cThis grant represents a step to establish democratic processes for overseeing \u2026 superintelligence.\u201d<\/p>\n

With the grants, furnished by OpenAI\u2019s nonprofit organization, OpenAI hopes to establish a process reflecting the Platonic ideal of democracy: a \u201cbroadly representative\u201d group of people exchanging opinions, engaging in \u201cdeliberate\u201d discussions, and ultimately deciding on an outcome via a transparent decision-making process. Ideally, OpenAI says, the process will help to answer questions like \u201cUnder what conditions should AI systems condemn or criticize public figures, given different opinions across groups regarding those figures?\u201d and \u201cHow should disputed views be represented in AI outputs?\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThe primary objective of this grant is to foster innovation in processes \u2014 we need improved democratic methods to govern AI behavior,\u201d OpenAI writes. \u201cWe believe that decisions about how AI behaves should be shaped by diverse perspectives reflecting the public interest.\u201d<\/p>\n

In the announcement post, OpenAI implies that the grant program is entirely divorced from its commercial interests. But that\u2019s a bit of a tough pill to swallow, given Altman\u2019s recent criticisms<\/a> of proposed AI regulation in the EU. The timing seems conspicuous, too, following Altman\u2019s appearance<\/a> in front of the U.S. Senate Congressional Committee last week, where he advocated for a very specific flavor of AI regulation that would have a minimal effect on OpenAI\u2019s technology as it exists today.<\/p>\n

Still, even if the program ends up being self-serving, it\u2019s an interesting direction to take AI policymaking (albeit duplicative of the EU\u2019s efforts in some obvious ways). I, for one, am curious to see what sort of ideas for \u201cdemocratic processes\u201d emerge \u2014 and which applicants OpenAI ends up choosing.<\/p>\n

Folks can apply to the OpenAI grant program starting today \u2014 the deadline is June 24 at 9 p.m. PDT. Once the application period closes, OpenAI will select ten successful recipients. Recipients will have to showcase a concept involving at least 500 participants, publish a public report on their findings by October 20 and open source the code behind their work.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n

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